


Make the Yuletide Gay

by elena0206



Category: Hannibal (TV)
Genre: Christmas, Dogs, Established Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, First Kiss, Fluff and Crack, M/M
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2015-12-24
Updated: 2015-12-24
Packaged: 2018-05-09 02:50:11
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Chapters: 1
Words: 4,714
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5522648
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/elena0206/pseuds/elena0206
Summary: <blockquote class="userstuff">
              <p>Upon receiving an anonymous gift, Jimmy Price and Brian Zeller find themselves forced to spend the Christmas day together.</p>
            </blockquote>





	Make the Yuletide Gay

**Author's Note:**

  * For [PajamaSecrets](https://archiveofourown.org/users/PajamaSecrets/gifts).



> Merry Christmas, PajamaSecrets!! :) I hope this fic is just what you wanted and that you'll enjoy it. ♥

For Jimmy Price, Christmas mornings were all about sleeping until noon, drinking a cup of coffee with an extra sugar cube, indulging in fried eggs and bacon, maybe even cookies, and enjoying the rest of the day in the intimacy of his home. It was nothing more than just a day off, a day to relax and step away from work and all dark and twisted cases. Jimmy had been working in the crime investigation field for so long that he inevitably got used to it, and it became part of the daily routine. But it was nice, every once in a while, to spend a day without examining any limbless bodies or bodiless limbs. And that year was not going to be any different. He would just spend the day alone, tucked away from the world’s mayhem. At least that was what he had told himself when he went to sleep.   

Instead of waking up slowly and peacefully as planned, with warm sun rays lingering on his face, he was jerked awake abruptly by a rock going through his bedroom window, shattering pieces of broken glass on the floor, and making space for a gust of cold wind to sneak in through the hole. He still had his sleeping mask on when Brian Zeller’s familiar voice came from outside, muffled by the hissing winter wind, but still clear and energetic.

“Sorry!” he shouted. “I’m no engineer, but I should have calculated that throw better. My bad.”

“ _An asshole is what you are,_ ” Jimmy thought with irritation, but decided not to say it out loud. He took his mask off and walked on tiptoes to the window – or what was left of it – careful not to step on the broken glass, and poked his head outside. A considerably thick layer of snow had fallen overnight, and Jimmy had to squint to see anything behind the overwhelming brightness of the clear silver sky reflecting on the ground’s white. Brian was standing in front of his house, knee deep in snow, all wrapped up in a big winter coat, with scarf, gloves, and hat. Jimmy realized he’d have to shovel the snow away, and cursed under his breath shortly.  

“I’ll pay for the window,” Brian announced loudly. “Consider it your Christmas gift.”

Jimmy rolled his eyes in petty annoyance. “I’d rather you stopped throwing rocks at my window. If my memory serves me right, it’s already the third time this year. ”

“What excuse would I have to buy you gifts then?”

Brian’s tone was playful and endearing, and Jimmy couldn’t help but let the other’s good mood engulf him. Perhaps it was time for a change in his routine, and Brian’s presence, although still quite early in the morning, was not too bad for a start.

“Paying for windows _you_ have broken can hardly be considered a gift,” Jimmy added before walking off downstairs to open the door for Brian.

“It’s your lucky day, Mr. Price, because I have something special for you,” he revealed with a cheerful grin when Jimmy finally unlocked the door and let him come inside.

“Oh, this’d better not be sappy, Zeller!”

“Well…”

Brian paused and started fidgeting around, and Jimmy suddenly found himself wondering what could possibly be _so_ special that Brian had to pay him an unannounced visit at nine in the morning on Christmas day.

 “Well?”

Jimmy raised his eyebrows with intrigue, waiting, as Brian started unzipping his coat. He was just halfway done when Jimmy saw _it_ and stepped back, gasping loudly.

“Is that a… an…”  

Jimmy was at a loss for words, completely bemused as a puppy poked its head and little front paws out of Brian’s coat. It was tiny, looking no older than a month, with golden silky fur and floppy ears.

“An actual _canis lupus familiaris_?!”

“Yes, Jimmy, a dog. A puppy, in fact,” Brian pointed out with slight indignation because of the other’s overdramatic reaction. He finished taking his coat off and carelessly threw it on an armchair, eliciting a wince from Jimmy. He was holding the puppy with both hands, with great care and attention.

“In what state of delirium where you when you decided bringing me a dog for Christmas would be a good idea?”

“I didn’t exactly _bring_ you a dog for Christmas,” Brian protested.

“Entering my house on Christmas day with a dog you specifically picked for me is pretty much bringing me a dog for Christmas.”

“No, you see, here’s the problem: the dog is not from me. I just delivered it.”

Jimmy frowned – a mix of both confusion and offense. There was no gift after all, not even a dog that he hadn’t asked for.

“I forgot my car keys at work after last night’s party,” Brian began explaining. “So today morning I went to pick them up and this little buddy was in the lab. And there was this– “

He stopped talking and started patting his pockets, until he found what he was searching for – a small paper note that he handed to Jimmy.

 

> _Dearest Jimmy Price and Brian Zeller,_
> 
> _I send you my sincerest wishes for health, happiness and peace during this holiday season and throughout the coming year, as well as a gift that will hopefully brighten even your darkest day up. Please accept it, together with my best regards._
> 
> _Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!_

The note was handwritten, with ink as it seemed, in a neat and elegant cursive style. The mysterious sender didn’t leave any name or other sort of contact information.

“We’re taking it to a shelter as soon as possible,” Jimmy said shortly after reading the note and handing it back to Brian.

The latter’s facial expression changed from an excited smirk to a downcast frown. “I thought we could keep it,” he confessed.

“ _You_ can keep it. I don’t want a dog.”

Jimmy’s cold tone and blunt indifference made Brian feel more upset than saddened. There was no reason for him to act so hostile towards a puppy, and especially not on Christmas day.

“Just give it a chance,” Brian pleaded. “We’ll keep it for two days and if you’re still not convinced by then, I’ll find it a new home.”

Jimmy sighed. “Fine,” he said with reluctance, and Brian’s smile slowly started to spread on his face again.

*******

After Jimmy had temporarily fixed the broken window with plastic foil, cardboard, staples, and duct tape, he made coffee – four sugar cubes for him, and two for Brian. They were sitting in the small and well-lit kitchen, taking small sips every now and then, and waiting for the caffeine to kick in so that they could start the day. It was all silent, except for a choir of children singing classic Christmas carols on TV. Brian had insisted to make a bed for their new dog, so they improvised one out of a fruit basket and towels, and placed it on the table, between them.

Jimmy was watching Brian stroking the sleeping puppy’s fur gently when he realized he had never seen Brian being so careful and tender with any person or animal before. The environment they were working in – cold and sterile – didn’t leave them space for showing their vulnerably human side to one another. They were often goofing around and joking, but mainly for maintaining a light atmosphere in such a dark place. The people coming in for them to examine were well past the point of needing affection, but that puppy, that tiny ball of golden fur, was alive, strikingly so. Both Jimmy and Brian were professionals trained to handle death and its causes, but could they handle life properly?

“What?” Brian questioned, with a small and curious smile, when he drifted his glance up and noticed Jimmy was watching him attentively.

Jimmy scratched his ear quickly. “Nothing,” he said, unsure himself if it really was _nothing_.

“By the way, it’s a male,” Brian announced, pointing at the puppy. “I’m calling him Spencer.”

“ _You_ are calling him Spencer? Don’t I have a say in this?”

“If you don’t want to keep him, why would it matter?”

Jimmy frowned. “He’s under my roof,” he said hastily, making the younger man puff and roll his eyes. “We decide together.”

“Right. So let’s hear your suggestion.”

He squinted, pondering for a few seconds, and the other waited impatiently, tapping his fingers on the table. “Dog,” Jimmy finally decided, and Brian got up from his seat instantly, deeply offended by his unimpressive choice.

“What?! No way! There’s no way we’re calling him Dog.”

The sounds and commotion made the puppy wake up and whimper softly, but Brian managed to hush him back to sleep quickly.

“Oh, and Spencer is so much better!” Jimmy said with sarcasm in a low voice, wary that the puppy might wake up again.

“Fine,” Brian pouted. “But I insist on spelling it D-O-U-G. It’s Doug, not Dog.”

Jimmy smiled with triumph and finished drinking his coffee in silence.

*******

Not too late after, Brian figured the puppy would soon get hungry and they had nothing to feed him.

“I have some milk,” Jimmy announced, but Brian argued that they couldn’t feed him just _any_ kind of milk, that it could harm him, and that they had to be careful. Jimmy capitulated, deciding to spare them both any further disputes, and agreed.

The nearest pet shop open on Christmas day was about an hour’s drive away, and Brian gladly took it upon him to go and buy special food for puppies, leaving the dog in Jimmy’s care. It was not what he had planned for that day, but it wasn’t necessarily worse either.

“Please take care of Doug,” Brian said before leaving, sounding genuinely concerned about Jimmy’s pet care skills, or rather lack thereof. “Don’t do anything weird with my dog.”

Jimmy made a grimace of annoyance. “He’s _our_ dog.”

Fixating Jimmy with an unwavering stare, Brian stopped in the doorway. “You actually like him, don’t you?” he asked, with an amused tone.

Jimmy shifted his weight from one leg to the other and cleared his throat. “He’s not too bad,” he admitted. “He doesn’t do much, so it’s a bit like having a pet rock. A hair-shedding pet rock.”

Brian chuckled, shaking his head, and walked away. Throwing one last glance over the shoulder to Jimmy, he waved goodbye and entered the car.

*******

“He _is_ bad! He’s horrible! _Horrible_!”

Jimmy’s angry shouting was so loud and strident that Brian had to distance the phone from his ear until he finished.

“He’s probably just hungry,” Brian started explaining, trying to calm the angry Jimmy down. “Or maybe he’s scared or cold.”

“And what am I supposed to do? I don’t understand what he wants. He’s just screaming.”

Brian sighed with exasperation. He feared Jimmy wouldn’t know how to handle such a situation, but truly hoped he could find a way. “I’ll be back in an hour. I can’t help you until then.”

Displeased with Brian’s reaction, Jimmy groaned in frustration and ended the call. He had to figure out a way to make the puppy stop crying all on his own. It was only noon, but that day had already been a roller coaster of moods and emotions, full of twists and turns, and he felt exhausted. All he wanted was to spend the day relaxing. Spending it with Brian was not a bad prospect, but having to take care of a pet just because _someone_ – and oh, how he wished he knew who – decided to drop them off an anonymous so-called gift was beyond his willingness to tolerate. But he was stuck inside as it seemed, at least until Brian came back home. He puffed and scratched the back of his head, completely lost. He didn’t have the slightest idea how to deal with a whining pet. 

*******

The drive back to Jimmy’s home was slow and dull after a heavy snowfall had started again. The sky darkened, burdened with heavy layers of clouds, and the road was slippery. The wind was blowing against Brian’s car, making it all even more difficult and unpleasant when the snowflakes would hit the windshield and melt down.

Between generic radio songs and announcements about the rapidly worsening weather conditions, Brian eventually arrived, and hurried to get inside, making his way through the blizzard and layers of snow with difficulty. He shuddered when entering Jimmy’s house, and expected to hear a crying dog, dubbed by an even louder crying Jimmy. Instead, everything was silent, suspiciously so. He headed for the kitchen where he had left them and looked around with raised eyebrows. The puppy’s basket was still there, but empty, and Jimmy was nowhere to be seen.

He was about to call the other’s name out when he entered the living room, but stopped just in time, noticing with surprise that both Jimmy and the puppy were sleeping. He was curled up on the sofa with the little dog cradled in his arms.

Brian smiled fondly. Jimmy _did_ manage to soothe their puppy after all. Wondering which one of them actually fell asleep first, he snickered and decided not to wake them up. A nap was well-deserved for both of them. After a few minutes of searching around Jimmy’s house – he had been there a few times before, but never while the other was asleep – he found a warm blanket.

Jimmy’s house was neater and more organized than Brian had expected, and so very different from his own. Brian lived in a small and crowded flat, dynamic in its disorder, while Jimmy’s house felt dull and still. Empty, almost. They were different. Not fundamentally different, just different enough to leave space for them to complete and better each other. While Brian tended to carry the jumble of his personal life at work,  Jimmy seemed to do exactly the opposite, carrying the rigidity and rigorousness of the required work ethics back at home, and inevitably into his personal life. But Jimmy was a fun person to be around, and Brian didn’t doubt it for a moment. They would sometimes go out on weekends or after work, more often with Beverly Katz than not, give each other lifts, or help each other out with household chores like redecorating or gardening – Brian was surprisingly good at gardening, Jimmy had thought one day – but they never got to spend a lot of time together, just the two of them, outside of work or other responsibilities. And they definitely never got to raise a puppy together. It was all new, and it was exciting and scary, in equal parts. There was always the possibility that Jimmy would still refuse to keep the dog, even after the two days they had agreed on, but Brian had a hunch that wouldn’t be the case.

He returned to the living room with the blanket draped over his arm, and covered them both slowly, careful not to wake them up. He didn’t question why his gaze lingered lazily across Jimmy’s sleeping face. At first, just for one moment. And then for a few more. A few moments more than it was necessary, a few moments that crossed an unmistakable line between being warm and friendly and being romantic and affectionate. And a few heartbeats – too fast, too strong, too unsettling. He didn’t ask himself _why_ because he knew. And when his knuckles brushed Jimmy’s cheek ever so tenderly in a ghostly touch, he knew it better than any time before.  There were feelings – feelings he didn’t directly admit to himself, but that he didn’t deny either. He just accepted them from the day they first met at work, progressively getting stronger, more real, more obvious. At least for him, Brian. He wasn’t entirely sure if Jimmy had noticed. And he was not sure at all if the feelings were mutual. But he didn’t care too much to find out, not until that one particular winter afternoon, on Christmas day, when the blizzard was blocking all roads and he was sheltered inside of Jimmy’s house, together with him and a puppy they had more-or-less imaginatively named Dog. Brian smiled at how surreal it all felt, having the consistency of a dream with threads so thin and always on the verge of tearing apart and dissipating.    

*******

When he first opened his eyes, Jimmy could barely distinguish anything. He vaguely remembered a last desperate attempt to calm the dog by cradling it to his chest and then it all became fuzzy. He could only assume he had fallen asleep, but he wasn’t sure for how long he had been asleep – a few minutes, hours? After a few more slow blinks, he made out Brian’s figure sitting down on the living room floor, but everything was still dark. He lifted himself on an elbow and realized it wasn’t just his sleepy and blurry vision, the room actually _was_ dark, and even more confusing was the fact that there were lit candles all around.

“Hey,” Brian said joyously when he noticed Jimmy was awake. “How’d you sleep?”

Jimmy furrowed his brow, rubbing his eyes. “Like a baby on Lorazepam.”

Brian let out a short and breathy chuckle and when Jimmy kept looking around him, he felt compelled to explain. “Power outage,” he said. “Phone lines are down, the road are blocked. We’re pretty much stuck inside for god knows how long.”

“Spooky,” Jimmy whispered, smiling, content that they were both safe and probably far less bothered by the situation than he should have been.

“Hope you don’t mind I raided your stash of candles.”

“Mmm, I kinda dig it,” Jimmy said lightheartedly, breathing in the smell of burning scented candles. “ _Mulled cider_?”

“I figured it’d be more fitting than _Caribbean nights_.”

They both laughed silently.

“Come here. Look,” Brian said, gesturing with his arm.

Jimmy got up from the couch and saw the puppy behind Brian, slurping milk from a small bowl on the floor. He shook his head and sighed, with hands placed on his hips. 

“The best has been fed,” he teased, making Brian punch him lightly.

After the pet finished eating, Brian started playing with him and the puppy rolled on his back, ready to receive a tummy rub.

“Uhm… Brian?”

“Yes?”

He saw Jimmy inspecting the pet carefully.

“It’s a _she_ ,” he declared.

Brian frowned and took a closer look too.

“Oh, so that’s…”

“Yes.”

“Oh.”

“Yes.”

“I’m still calling her Doug,” Brian announced.

“It’s D-O-G,” Jimmy protested with a cheeky smile.

“As you say, darling,” Brian replied, returning the playful smirk. “So what do we do know?”

Jimmy grinned, with an “ _I’m glad you asked_ ” sort of look on his face. “Now we make the yuletide gay,” he answered happily.

*******

After an ungodly amount of eggnog – with perhaps too much rum for the sake of sobriety – Jimmy and Brian were lounging on the sofa, snuggled up with warm blankets. Neither of them could remember the last time they had felt so relaxed and comfortable with someone else. Granted, the alcohol was to blame, together with the fact that they were stuck inside, but there was something else too – a sort of veil from between them that they had finally allowed to fall over so they could see each other as they truly were.

They were telling stories – from work, from college, from school, from childhood – and sharing bits and pieces of personal information and details about their pasts. They would start telling jokes only to end up laughing before they could finish. But it was fine. It was cozy and safe and warm.

“What did the lawyer say to the other lawyer?” Brian spoke after a brief silence, and Jimmy knew it was going to be another one of his corny jokes, but he couldn’t care less. All he cared about in that moment was hearing Brian’s jolly laugher again and seeing his face brighten up.

“What?” Jimmy asked, anticipating some sort of pun, and already grinning.

Brian looked at him, trying to keep a serious face on. “He said…” he began, but instead of delivering the punch line he cracked up and started laughing uncontrollably, and Jimmy inevitably joined him too.

“He said: we’re both lawyers,” Brian finally managed to finish the joke, and they both immediately burst out once more in a new and even more lively wave of laughter.

A few moments later, they were both panting. Jimmy was holding his abdomen, muscles painfully sore from so much laughing, and Brian was wiping the tears away from the corners of his eyes.

“That was so dumb,” Brian admitted, clearing his throat and shaking his head.

“I’m sure you’re capable of telling far worse jokes,” Jimmy assured sarcastically. “I believe in you.”

“Well, gee, thanks. Your support is overwhelming,” Brian replied with a half-smirk.

They had been silent for a few moments, Brian letting his gaze drift aimlessly across the floor, and Jimmy fixating his on the other, when he spoke first.

“What did the crime scene investigator say to the other crime scene investigator?”

Brian chuckled and turned his face to Jimmy. “We’re both crime scene investigators?”

Instead of replying, Jimmy smiled fondly and bent himself closer to Brian. Their eyes were bright and sparkling, the light from the numerous candles moving around playfully, and their faces were pleasantly warm, a shade of alcohol-flushed pink. Brian reached out to put a hand on Jimmy’s shoulder, almost trembling, almost too nervous. When they slowly closed their eyes, with heavy eyelids resting upon the teary warmth, and their lips touched tenderly, when a shiver went up Brian’s spine and another one up Jimmy’s,  when they breathed in each other’s discreet scent, it all became inescapably clear.

The lights suddenly turned on, yanking them out of their merry intoxication. They pulled away from each other and avoided eye contact for a few seconds before Brian’s cell phone rang. It was Jack Crawford.

“Where the hell are you, Zeller?”

He sounded furious and Brian assumed something urgent was going on.

“At… home?” he answered, throwing a quick glance over to Jimmy who was watching him with curiosity. “I mean, at Jimmy’s home,” he corrected himself.

“Good. I’ve already sent a car and they should be there any moment.”

“No, wait,” Brian pleaded. “We both have the day off and it’s Christmas evening and the roads are blocked and –“

“The Chesapeake Ripper doesn’t take days off. You are the FBI and you’re the best shot I have at catching this killer. Now move your asses over here.”

Jack Crawford ended the call before Brian could say anything else. He sighed with frustration.

“Well?” Jimmy asked, eager to find out what the conversation was about.

“It’s the Chesapeake Ripper again. Jack sent a car for us and…” He paused when a large black FBI car equipped with a snow plow stopped in front of Jimmy’s house. “And there they are.”

Jimmy frowned. “But what about Dog? We can’t leave her alone.”

Brian smiled with affection, glad to see Jimmy carrying enough to worry about leaving their pet alone.

“We’ll take her with us.”

*******

“The Chesapeake Ripper has gone all bonkers,” Beverly Katz explained when they arrived. “He’s killing more often than before and it’s completely irregularly now. It’s like he’s got one – or more – partners in crime now. Or he has a family to feed and is stacking up for winter.”

But Jimmy and Brian were distracted and just nodding mindlessly at her, as their attention seemed to be focused on something else. She was analyzing a piece of fabric from the victim’s torn clothes and trying to ignore the soft whimpering sounds coming from Brian and Jimmy that they tried to alternatively cover with coughing and talking loudly.

“Okay, spit it all out,” Beverly eventually said, not able to pretend she couldn’t hear it anymore. “What kind of antics did you two get yourself into this time?”

Brian and Jimmy exchanged a quick look and nodded at each other in unspoken agreement. Jimmy gestured Beverly to come closer and she approached them with confusion, only to see the puppy in a box hidden underneath one of the desks. To Jimmy’s and Brian’s delight, she was pleasantly surprised.

“Beverly,” Jimmy started speaking ceremoniously. “This is our dog, Dog.”

“No, actually her name is Doug,” Brian interfered.

“Isn’t this what he just said?”

“Yes, but no. It’s not Dog, it’s more like Doug.”

Beverly frowned and made an unintelligible gesture with her hand, but decided not to insist. She agreed to help them hide the puppy so that they could all focus on finishing work faster.

*******

Jimmy was walking towards Jack Crawford’s office in order to deliver the new information about their case, when Brian unexpectedly tackled him from behind and shoved them both in a supplies closet, adjacent to Jack’s office.

“What in god’s name do you think you’re doing?” Jimmy questioned, more amused than surprised.

“Finishing what we had started earlier,” Brian answered without taking his eyes off the other and wrapped his arms around Jimmy’s torso, pulling them closer together until their chests were pressed against each other.

The closet was uncomfortably small in size, crowded with all sorts of objects, and completely dark, but they didn’t mind. They were both giddy like school boys, sneaking away from classes and the teachers’ scrutinous eyes. In a way, it was exactly what they were doing.

They barely pressed their lips together when the door opened loudly, revealing an angry Jack Crawford.

“What on earth are you two doing here?”

“Oh my god, Brian!” Jimmy said in an overly dramatic voice, all flustered. “Would you look at these fingerprints!”

“Yeah!” Brian agreed, though he had no idea where to look. “They’re some very… fingerprints. They’re, like, the most finger fingerprints I’ve ever seen.”

Jack was listening to their meaningless babbling and shaking his head slowly. “I want a detailed report of your workplace relationships by Monday,” he ordered.

He walked away and Jimmy and Brian glanced at each other and started chuckling. Brian grabbed Jimmy’s hand, their fingers intertwining, and Jimmy placed a peck on the other’s cheek. Whatever decision Jack Crawford might take, they had each other and they would go through it together. They both knew they would get in trouble, but on the bright side, Jack didn’t know about Dog. A small victory was still a victory.

*******

**_Two weeks later_ **

Hannibal had just taken a shower and was drying his hair with a towel on his way to the bedroom, when he noticed Will putting his coat on.

“Are you going anywhere?” he asked, raising his eyebrows.

Will bent his head a little and glanced at Hannibal. “Yes? To bring the dog back,” he said, as a matter of fact, unsure why it wasn’t obvious for Hannibal.

“Will,” Hannibal began, with a compassionate voice. “The dog is theirs now. We won’t take it back.”

“I only accepted to do this because we agreed we’d take it back.”

“We agreed we’d take it back in case they didn’t want to keep it. But they do. It’s their dog now and they’ll take good care of it.”

Will scowled, and without saying another word, he threw his coat off angrily and headed for the bedroom. Hannibal followed him in silence. He crawled on bed, but refused to go to sleep despite Hannibal’s insistencies. He was sitting with his back resting against the headboard and arms crossed when Hannibal sighed deeply and turned to his side to face Will.

“You can get a new dog,” he said, giving up, unable to stand seeing Will angry at him.

“Three,” Will tried to negotiate.

“One single dog, Will.”

“Two dogs.”

“One dog and a fishing trip next weekend?”

Will contemplated the offer for a few seconds. “Deal,” he agreed.

Hannibal smiled affectionately and kissed Will’s shoulder, before returning to sleep.

On his side of the bed, Will was smirking to himself. Not only their plan of bringing Jimmy and Brian together worked wonderfully, but he also managed to convince Hannibal to let him get a new dog and go on a fishing trip the next weekend. He almost couldn’t believe Hannibal fell for his “ _I’m going to take the dog back_ ” trick. Almost.

**Author's Note:**

> The title is a reference to the classic song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. "Make the Yuletide gay" = "Make Christmas time happy"
> 
> Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! :)


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